"Sometimes bad things happen to good robots," hitchBOT team wrote. — -- The creators of hitchBOT, the hitchhiking robot that was decapitated in Philadelphia over the weekend are choosing to mourn ...

With a bucket for a body and foam noodles for limbs, hitchBOT is a story-telling, story-collecting, hitchhiking robot invented by two professors. And it's just embarked on a trip across Canada.

A video that surfaced purportedly showing the moment a hitchhiking robot was destroyed in Philadelphia Saturday is likely part of a hoax from YouTube pranksters. In the video, which was posted on ...

TORONTO (CBS/AP) — The Canadian talking and tweeting hitchhiking robot that met its untimely end in the United States over the weekend might be given another chance at life. HitchBOT's co-creators ...

HitchBOT, a one-year-old device from Port Credit, Ontario, died early in the morning of August 1, 2015 in Philadelphia. The three-foot-tall hitchhiking robot, a high-tech Flat Stanley that depended on ...

Earlier this month, people all over the world mourned the end of HitchBOT, the robot who set out from Boston to hitchhike across America -- and only made it as far as Philadelphia, where he was ...

The Philadelphia tech community is attempting to reconstruct hitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot that met its demise in Old City Saturday night. HitchBOT, the creation of researchers at Canada's Ryerson ...

Horror movies have trained us not to trust hitchhikers. But what if that hitchhiker with his thumb sticking out were a cute little robot? This might be a real question that drivers in Canada are faced ...

HitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot, is attempting to travel across Canada. Hitchbot, a tiny robot, will be hitchhiking across Canada, making small talk along the way and live tweeting his adventure.

A Kickstarter page has been started to rebuild HitchBOT, a robot that managed to successfully hitchhike its way around Canada and Europe before being smashed to pieces on the streets of Philadelphia.

So what happened to hitchBOT? The friendly hitchhiking robot made it across Germany, the Netherlands and Canada with nary a scratch, its treks followed by children and technology enthusiasts worldwide ...

You think the security perimeter is going to be bad for the pope? Wait until hitchBOT returns. HitchBOT may have met its demise last weekend in Philadelphia, but its creators are considering ...